UK+Art

Art in the UK has a long history with famous artists (that are on record) going back to 1200 AD. Here is a list of some of the artists and examples of their work.
 * Mary Potter 1900-1981 [[image:Artprint1.jpg align="center"]]
 * Edward Burra 1905-1976[[image:Artpint2.jpg width="200" height="168" align="center"]]


 * Roger Hilton 1911-1975[[image:Artprint3.jpg width="149" height="195" align="center"]]
 * Terry Frost 1915-2003[[image:Artprint4.jpg width="164" height="168" align="center"]]
 * Sandra Blow 1925-2006[[image:Artprint5.jpg width="181" height="144" align="center"]]
 * William Tucker 1935-Present

> Art in Kent, England (Where we live) One famous, award winning artist, is Tracy Emin who is a modern artist from Margate and uses normal situations including a 'Bed' with item she has previously used and clothes she has previously worn.
 * Clive Barker 1940-Present[[image:Artprint6.jpg width="171" height="171" align="center"]]
 * Richard Long 1945-Present[[image:Artprint7.jpg width="154" height="178" align="center"]]
 * Antony Gormley 1950- Present 100 human sized statues on a beach in Liverpool
 * Shirazeh Houshiary 1955- Present
 * Isaac Julien 1950- Present
 * Tacita Dean 1965- Present[[image:artprint10.jpg width="250" height="155" align="center"]]

Amie Bolissian is an artist from London (Next to Kent) she is the opposite to the previous artist. She specializes in people and paints many of them in houses and communal places but uses Dark and Light colour In contrast.

Marcus Cope and Monica Monikeran an artist duet. These two artists are arguably the best British contemporary artists using finger nails and various colours in there modern paintings.

Kiera Bennett paints places and things she knows. Particular places that inspire, like other devices (music, drinking etc.) To attempt to make the memory of these elusive sensations tangible is simply the starting point…

Art in Wales

David Jones, Although he was born in Kent, England (1895) Jones has a strong Welsh connection via his grandfather who was born in Wales and moved to Surrey, England. David Jones' Welsh heritage was fundamental to his beliefs and his life's works.

Heulwen Phillips a Welsh abstract artist who has been paid considerable interest by London galleries including the Tate Modern. Based on the theme of light and dimension.

Art in Scotland

Charles Monteith Walker was born in 1957 in Falkirk. He attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee where his influences included Alberto Morrocco and David McClure.

Graham McKean was born in 1962 in Irvine, Ayrshire. His paintings have been described by the art critic W. Gordon Smith as a cross between the painters John Byrne and Stanley Spencer, with an interesting 'bite'.

Art in Northern Ireland John Kindness (Born Belfast, 1951) is an Irish multimedia artist whose work often contrasts material, image and reference in an unusual and humorous way. Jim Manley is usually concerned with the interaction of mankind and the natural world, and nowhere is this better exemplified than where land and sea meeting's work. PAGE CREATED BY LOUIS L AND THOMAS L